Aranuka

Aranuka was a nice place, with plenty of fresh water, and some of the Island schooners, and once in a while a British gunboat would stop there.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

"When a feller's young, he never stops to think o 'th' hurt he does," continued the erstwhile king of Aranuka.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

I got a whisper you was in Aranuka but when I got there you'd left.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

How about that lovely, untootered savage that you lures into your foul clutches so's you can make yourself king of Aranuka?

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

"What was you doin 'in this here Aranuka?" asked Mr. McGuffey.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

Bull was all broke up at me desertin 'the _Dashin' Wave_, but I promised to save all the Aranuka trade for him an 'for nobody else, an' he stood off for Suva to get himself another mate.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

There was but one way to get back to Aranuka and that was to ship out before the mast on a South

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

Together with the lagoon island of Aranuka, from which it is distant about six miles, it belongs to the present King of Apamama, a large and densely populated atoll situated half a degree to the eastward.

The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884

The first of these, a small Hawaiian whaling brig, was attacked when she was lying becalmed between Kuria and Aranuka.

The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884

He is not only the sole ruler, he is the sole merchant of his triple kingdom, Apemama, Aranuka, and Kuria, well-planted islands.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872